In the season finale hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal on May 18, 2024, we discuss Mulvey’s Male Gaze and Kracauer’s Mass Ornament in Beautiful Girls, unfair labor practices and genocide in Fast Fashion Ad, and humans as props in Weekend Update Joke Swap. Readings include the philosophy of consumer responsibility and the role of American influencers in Chinese propaganda.
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Readings and Resources
Barry, C., & MacDonald, K. (2016). How should we conceive of individual consumer responsibility to address labour injustices? In Y. Dahan, H. Lerner, & F. Milman-Sivan (Eds) Global Justice and International Labour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://philarchive.org/archive/BARHSW-2
The Select Committee on the CCP. (2023 Jun 22) Fast Fashion and the Uyghur Genocide: Interim Findings. https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/reports/fast-fashion-and-uyghur-genocide-interim-findings
Kapica, S. S. (2022). “It’s a hideous, hideous stupidity:” Gallagher’s Comedy of Contempt. The Journal of American Culture, 45(2), 125-138. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jacc.13338
Kracauer, S. (1995). The mass ornament: Weimar essays. Harvard University Press. https://monoskop.org/images/0/0f/Kracauer_Siegfried_The_Mass_Ornament_Weimar_Essays.pdf
Mulvey, L. (2013). Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. In Feminism and film theory (pp. 57-68). Routledge. https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1021/Laura%20Mulvey%2C%20Visual%20Pleasure.pdf
Ramirez, I. (2023 Nov 14). It’s time to break up with fast fashion. Vox. https://www.vox.com/even-better/2023/11/14/23955673/fast-fashion-shein-hauls-environment-human-rights-violations
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